Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-12

echOing again and again, on and on with
ceaseleSS reveberation down the centuries.
"If there was one thing that stirred the
heart that now rests from its labOrs more
than any other, that has marked his life
and makes his memory precious to US now,
it was his many sided utterances of a
Christ living, as going about among men,
the Master who first and last asks us to be-
lieve in Him rather than to believe what
Others say about Him. The radical ques-
tiOn of this age has been: Is there facul-
ty Of illuminated reason to recognize liv-
ing Christ who can talk to us aud by the
great communication of this mind and
spirit directly lead us into all truths? As
mOnarchies and hereditary institutions, and
at last African slavery has fallen to tin
dust, the question gathers voice and insists
upon an answer 1t will not be put off by
any compromises with past orders and in
stitutions, but renews itself Mt every turn,
echOing in every advance in science and
art; comes up in every development of lit
erature and social progress. Is there q
faith in Christ behind the consciousness of
the individual that can be to him the very
word of GOd-the illuminated, mandatory
conscience. Ia q country that dreams as
yet of Government of the people and for
the people that question is inevitable,
and even if 1t should send the sword
among us for while in the effort for
peace, it must be answered.
II is not an accident then altogether that
the man whose life has been nodded by that
question and its possible answers should
have paused on the unfinished volume Of
the life of Christ" He has been man
of the people, Christward. We remind you
that, though the English-speaking race to-
day mourns his fall and recognizes his loss,
Americans feel that he has been great
leader or adviser in the guidance of all
manner of substantial interest, though the
Legislature of the State has paid him an
unusual honor of adjOurning as
his right; though the press and
divines and orators of all degrees are
trying to compass the mighty theme in
glowing words, in words of exulting grief
that we have had him with us so long and
have lost him, yet that as he lies there so
quiet, we may look at him rs one who has
been through all and in all things an apos-
tie of one supreme thought, preacher of
the everlasting gospel Of the everything
Christ.
"YOu who know him best. you who have
listened to him here in the church, know
well that first, last and always, in no
barren or dreaming sense, his life has been
absorbed in this work and hid with Christ
in God"
At the close of the funeral services the
congregation viewed the remains, after
which the doors were thrown open to the
public again until 4 p. M.
At that hour the children of the three
Sunday school connected with the church,
in charge OF their supcrintendentS and
teachers viewed the remains
Upon closing the church the public
services will he closed, and the re-
mOval to the cemetery will be private to-
morrow morning. Only the family and q
few friends will follow the body TO Green
wood on Saturday.
1t is estimated that ut least forty thous-
and persons have viewed the body.
The people were kept moving rapidly by
the guard of honor and it is estimated that
they passed the coffin ut the Iate of 2OO
per minute. The children connected with
the Sunday School of Plymouth Church
were permitted 10 view the remains during
the afternoon.